Lion Womans Legacy

Download or read book Lion Woman's Legacy written by Arlene Voski Avakian and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “vivid and engrossing” narrative of one woman’s journey from shame and internal conflict to becoming a liberated, confident, and proud lesbian (Kirkus Reviews). The descendant of survivors of the Armenian genocide, Arlene Avakian was raised in America where she could live free. But even with that freedom, she found herself a prisoner of both her family and society, denying her heritage along with her true sexuality. After marriage and motherhood, Arlene found herself exploring the growing women’s lib movement of the 1970s, coming to embrace the strength of her grandmother—known as the Lion Woman—and realizing her full potential and personhood. Inspired by her passionate feminism and strengthened by a loving lesbian relationship, Avakian recollects and re-examines her personal history and the story of her courageous grandmother, revealing a legacy of radical politics, fierce independence, and a powerful affirmation of ethnic identity in this “extremely readable and often painfully honest book” (Library Journal).

Download or read book Lion Woman's Legacy written by Arlene Voski Avakian and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1992 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arlene Avakian's memoir evokes the quarrels, ambition, prejudice, and courage that shaped her coming of age in a family that immigrated to the United States to escape genocide in Turkey. Inspired by her passionate feminism and strengthened within a loving lesbian relationship, Avakian records and re-examines her personal history, discovering the story of her grandmother, which brings with it a legacy of radical politics and a powerful affirmation of ethnic identity.

Download or read book The Unspoken as Heritage written by Harry Harootunian and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1910s historian Harry Harootunian's parents Ohannes and Vehanush escaped the mass slaughter of the Armenian genocide, making their way to France, where they first met, before settling in suburban Detroit. Although his parents rarely spoke of their families and the horrors they survived, the genocide and their parents' silence about it was a permanent backdrop to the Harootunian children's upbringing. In The Unspoken as Heritage Harootunian—for the first time in his distinguished career—turns to his personal life and family heritage to explore the genocide's multigenerational afterlives that remain at the heart of the Armenian diaspora. Drawing on novels, anecdotes, and reports, Harootunian presents a composite sketch of the everyday life of his parents, from their childhood in East Anatolia to the difficulty of making new lives in the United States. A meditation on loss, inheritance, and survival—in which Harootunian attempts to come to terms with a history that is just beyond his reach—The Unspoken as Heritage demonstrates how the genocidal past never leaves the present, even in its silence.

Download or read book Daughter of the Lion written by Jennifer Roberson and published by D A W Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 1989 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy tale about a race of magical warriors.

Download or read book Caged Lion: Joseph Pilates and His Legacy written by John Howard Steel and published by Last Leaf Press. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surprising story of Pilates-the man and the method.

Download or read book LION'S LADY written by Suzanne Barclay and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Broken Promise…A Binding Vow Rowena Gunn was ever ruled by these echoes from the past to protect her son and safeguard his future. But the past was now embracing her in the very present form of Lion Sutherland, the Highland laird who alone could storm her defenses and besiege her cloistered heart! Though hailed as a braw warrior, Lion Sutherland was nearly undone when his bonnie Rowena wed another. But now the fates had reunited them, and he'd be damned if anything—even the protests of the lady herself!—would destroy their newfound chance at love!

Download or read book Unveiled written by Francine Rivers and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2001 Christy Award finalist! Unveiled is the story of Tamar, one of the women in the lineage of Jesus. Francine brings the story to life in her trademark style, showing the grace of God in the life of Tamar and her father-in-law, Judah. Unveiled is the first in the Lineage of Grace series of five novellas covering the stories of Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, and Mary.